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LIX. MELASTOMACEAi. 
[Sonerila. 
Cymes dense, many-flowered axillary; peduncles -2 in. long. 
Calyx -i in. long, bristly cylindric-campanulate, red. Petals small, 
linear-oblong acute, white, bristly on back. Stamens 3; anthers 
oblong, blunt. Capsule campanulate muncate bristly narrowed 
to a short thick peduncle *2 in. long. Hab. Damp muddy spot* 
at 4000 ft. altitude. Pahang, Gunong Tahan, in the Gully below 
the Plateau (Ridley). 
(30) S. costulata Stapf, l.c. 39. . 
Dwarf herb. Stem 1 to 2 in. tall, hairy. Leaves large ones 
obliquely obovate-oblong sub-acute, base unequally cordate, dark 
green often red beneath, above sparsely bristly, margins ciliate 
beneath, hairy on the nerves ; nerves 7, prominent beneath, 3 to b 
in. long, i*3 to 2*5 in. wide; petioles hairy, -3 to 5 in. long; small 
leaves ovate cordate or reniform. Cymes terminal and in upper axils 
solitary or 2 on a short common peduncle ebracteate. Fruit semi- 
globose muricate, -15 to -18 in. wide. Hab. Local in lowland forests. 
Johor, woods at the foot of Gunong Pantai (Kunstler, Ridley). 
This is really near S. begoniafolia, but the leaves are stiffer, nerves more 
prominent and the cyme-peduncle very short. 
(40) S. microcarpa Stapf, l.c. 38. _ , 
Habit of S. brackyantha, but hardly 6 in. tall. Stem hairy. 
Leaves dissimilar, large ones oblong to lanceolate acuminate, base 
unequally cordate, above sparsely hairy, dark, often with 4 or more 
rows of small white spots, beneath soft hairy, 2-5 to 4 in long, 1 to 
1*5 in. wide; petioles -15 to -4 in- long; small leaves reniform sessile, 
•2 in long Cymes axillary terminal, sub-sessile or peduncled up 
to -3 in long. Calyx campanulate short-toothed, hairy; teeth 
triangular. Petals oblong acute *25 in. long, pink. Anthers oblong 
blunt. Capsule pink turbinate, minutely muricate -ix in. long. 
Hab. Perak; upper, at 300 ft. altitude (Wray). 
(41) S. begonieefolia Bl. Flora 1831, p. 490; Stapf, l.c. 41. 
S. paradoxa Naud, Ann. Sc. Nat, Ser. hi. xv. 321. S. moluccana 
Jack, Mai. Misc. i. 8 (1 not of Roxburgh). . 
An ascending herb 6 in. taU, seldom branched, softly hairy all 
over or the leaves glabrous above. Leaves very dissimilar large ones 
obliquely oblong acuminate, unequally cordate, 3 to 6 in. long,1-2 to 
2-5 in. wide; nerves 6 to 8; petioles - 4 to 2 in. long; small leaves 
round cordate, petioled, - 4 in. long. Cymes terminal axillary I to 4, 
dense; peduncles -5 to 2 in. long. Calyx cylindric-campanulate, 
•is in long, hairy. Petals oblong acute, white or pink. Stamens 3 . 
oblong. Capsule turbinate, -15 in. long muncate hairy. Hab. 
Lowland and low hill woods, usually sporadic, variable in Miriness, 
Singapore, Bukit Timah; Chanchu Kang. Johor Gunong Pantai. 
Pahang, Tahan River; Gunong Tahan (Robinson), Negn Sembdan 
Seremban (Napier); Bukit Tunuang (Cantley). Selangor Bukit 
Hitam. Perak, Keledang; Bujong Malacca. Dindings, Lumut. 
